These Vegan Snowball cookies are delicious buttery, pecan shortbread cookies coated in powdered sugar and are the perfect little gems to add to your holiday cookie boxes or do cookie exchanges with.

Definitely on the splurge side but totally worth it. I usually use coconut sugar or maple syrup for a lot of my recipes in place of sugar, but for these I went all out. Also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, Pecan Sandies, and Russian Tea Cakes, you won’t be able to have just one. Trust me, I know from experience.

A lot of the time people think you need a vegan recipe to make something vegan. You can take ANY recipe and veganize it. We have so many different ingredients out there that are amazing substitutes. You just have to take a recipe and look at it’s vegan counterparts. So if something needs butter you use